Distinguished actor Mohan Agashe to speak at Junoon's 'Mumbai Local' this weekend...
August 11, 2016 5:03:17 PM IST MTG editorial
''Education only focuses on developing cognitive skills. It leaves out all other sensory intelligence. The arts are the space of sensory experience and intelligence - where cognition is welcome, but not alone!''
Dr Mohan Agashe – psychiatrist, actor and producer will elaborate more on his thoughts this weekend at Junoon's 'Mumbai Local'. As a doctor and a theatrewallah, he soon discovered that the two parallel streams in his life actually converged and informed each other. Through his years of experience, Dr. Agashe began to understand and perceive art as a precursor to learning. He noticed that the arts sparked interest and intrigue in people's minds, and triggered the desire to learn more about certain subjects. Soon, studying this became his passion. Dr. Agashe started smuggling the arts into the sphere of learning and education.
How do these spaces come together in Dr. Agashe's work? Why is it important? Why use art as a trigger for education? Does it work well? Explore all these questions and much more with Dr. Agashe in this session. He will draw from his own journey in the arts that began with his early success in Vijay Tendulkar's play GHASIRAM KOTWAL. Dr Agashe will open up a fascinating world in which the love of learning begins with experiences in the arts.
Date: Sunday, 14th August 2016 Time: 5 pm Venue: Dr Bhaudaji Lad Museum, Byculla (E)
Dr. Mohan Agashe is a distinguished film and theatre actor as well as a trained psychiatrist. His numerous awards include the Sangeet Natak Academy Award, India's highest national honour for the arts. Dr. Agashe was conferred the Padma Shri by the President of India and the Bundesverdienskreuz, The Cross of the Order of Merit by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany. He has also been awarded the Goethe Medal, the Official Decoration of the German Government for his contributions to theatre.
Dr. Agashe has acted in over 60 films, both in India and internationally. He was director of the Film and Television Institute of India and has been on the board of the National Film Development Corporation.
In the realm of theatre, he has been theatre consultant to the Indian Council of Cultural Relations and was in charge of the theatre program for the Festival of India in the former USSR. Dr. Agashe also introduced contemporary Indian Theatre to Europe and North America as an actor-manager of Theatre Academy's overseas tour. In this he presented Vijay Tendulkar's folk musical play GHASIRAM KOTWAL, which was invited to the International Theatre Festivals of Berlin (Festwochen 1980), Lille (1980) Belgrade (BITEF 1989) Quebec (1986) and Baltimore (Theatre of Nations 1986) besides also giving guest performances in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Budapest, Moscow and many cities of North America.
His greatest contribution to Indian and Marathi theatre has been his pioneering work in introducing the concept of Grips Theatre, a self-sustained theatre movement from Berlin. He has been recognized for his work in regional Marathi theatre with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the All India Marathi Natya Parishad in Pune.
Dr. Agashe has been constantly active in the mental health field. He initiated a project to strengthen mental health education and service, and established the Maharashtra Institute of Mental Health. He initiated psychosocial rehabilitation of victims of the Latur earthquake of 1993 and was the Principal Investigator of a Research Project undertaken by Indian Council for Medical Research Centre for Advanced Research to study the health consequences of the earthquake disaster in 1994. He is currently the principal investigator of an Indo-U.S. joint Research Project on Cultural Disorders of Fatigue and Weakness. He also the principal investigator of an Indo-U.S. joint Research Project on Cultural Disorders of Fatigue and Weakness.
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